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Rh to invite those same professional preoccupations to distort the teachability of the end product. But to ignore the specialists altogether would be to stumble through the dark toward a distant candle, or to build a house following only a floor plan.

A very rough, but full-scale example of the grammatical part of fine specification for the linguistic aspect of an S-2 on the FSI rating scale is the following, for Brazilian portuguese. This is primarily a list of contrasts that a student must learn to control as he speaks the language. The three main headings in the list are, ,.

Affirmative VS. negative statements.

Statements vs. yes-no questions.

Yes-no questions vs. either-or questions.

Content questions with:

Short answers vs. long or yes-no answers.

Exclamations that emphasize:

Noun

Verb

Adjective